Lysander Spooner: “If you do not, you are plainly bound to let us all know what you do mean, by doing "equal and exact justice to all men.”

They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…

In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.

One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.